Cousin Ricky <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
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> "Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> > "Cousin Ricky" <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> > > Along the same geocentric theme, Worf once welcomed a Klingon crew to the 24th
> > > century.  What would "24th century" mean to a Klingon?  Or does the universal
> > > translator take care of that?
> >
> > A klingon who was raised by humans, on earth, and spent most of his life amongst
> > humans... a better question would be what would "24th century" mean to any
> > federation citizen, given that they use a different calendar :)

> Yes, but he was speaking to Klingons who weren't even members of a San
> Francisco-based federation.  Don't they have multicultural sensitivity training
> at Starfleet?

I see no difference to, for example, Japanese and Chinese using and
understanding the western calendar, even though historically they have
had their own (and still have; eg. dates printed on money do not follow
the western calendar but their traditional ones).

-- 
                                                          - Warp

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